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Author Megan Epler Wood

Megan Epler Wood

Megan Epler Wood travels the world investigating how to make travel and tourism a more sustainable industry that both conserves environments and contributes to local people. As the founder of The International Ecotourism Society in 1990, Megan began a lifetime of work in some of the world’s most remote and significant parks and protected areas, contributing to the wellbeing of local people with projects in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, throughout Central America, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Sri Lanka and India.

As the Director of the International Sustainable Tourism Initiative at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Instructor at Harvard Extension, she has launched a global effort to review and research how the trillion dollar travel economy can be managed with next generation research tools and more accountability at the local level.

Megan is releasing a book exploring the growing impacts of the tourism industry in the next 20 years, Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet in January of 2017. She is presenting information in this blog and speaking at major events throughout the world on its key conclusions.

www.eplerwood.com/

Building a Resilient Ecotourism Industry in Puerto Rico Post Hurricane Maria

Megan Epler Wood
July 18, 2018
sustainable travel
Surprisingly few international or U.S. mainland tour operators offer ecotourism in Puerto Rico!

What is ‘Overtourism’ and what are the impacts?

Megan Epler Wood
May 24, 2017
Energy, Cities and Climate Change, environmental impact, sustainable travel
Most tourism policy makers only look at gross revenues and do not evaluate the expense to manage the demands on local resources.

Ecotourism is Not the Answer to Sustainable Tourism

Megan Epler Wood
February 22, 2017
Social Impact, environmental impact, sustainable travel
Tourism and ecotourism must facilitate public private development projects for energy, waste water, and solid waste management to ensure improvements in public health and well-being.

From COP22: Daily Posts on Sustainable Tourism #3. Where’s the Funding?

Megan Epler Wood
November 18, 2016
Social Impact, environmental impact, sustainable travel
There needs to be a breakthrough program to raise funds based on lower impacts investment opportunities.

From COP22: Daily Posts on Sustainable Tourism #2. We have their attention!

Megan Epler Wood
November 17, 2016
Social Impact, environmental impact, sustainable travel
From COP22: Tourism must be part of the global effort to manage carbon and prevent the rising of global temperatures over 2 degrees centigrade.

From COP22: Daily Posts on Sustainable Tourism #1

Megan Epler Wood
November 17, 2016
environmental impact, sustainable travel
Megan Epler Wood is at COP22 exploring the advances in sustainable tourism - blog #1.

Can emissions from flying be controlled? A meeting in Montreal will seek answers.

Megan Epler Wood
September 28, 2016
Energy, Cities and Climate Change, Culture and Leadership
Sustainable tourism can no longer be a set of voluntary initiatives or a menu of consumer choices.

Why Don’t We Ever Discuss the Carbon Impacts of Flying?

Megan Epler Wood
September 20, 2016
Culture and Leadership, behaviour change, transportation
While environmentally aware individuals worldwide agree that climate change is a proven challenge for our planet, few have changed their travel behaviors.
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